Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

home.ancestry.ca

Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records

Page Load Speed

979 ms in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

700 ms

Page Rendered

95 ms

home.ancestry.ca screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home.ancestry.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 795 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

home.ancestry.ca performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.ancestry.ca

184 ms

combo.ashx

34 ms

combo.ashx

27 ms

header.js

18 ms

header.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Home.ancestry.ca, 25% (12 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 15% (7 requests) were made to C.mfcreative.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (260 ms) relates to the external source C.mfcreative.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 223.4 kB (69%)

Content Size

323.6 kB

After Optimization

100.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Home.ancestry.ca main page is 323.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 201.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 28.3 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.8 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 170 B
  • After minification 170 B

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Home Ancestry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 201.6 kB
  • After minification 200.2 kB
  • After compression 72.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 128.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 93.5 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Home.ancestry.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (74%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Ancestry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

home.ancestry.ca accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

home.ancestry.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

home.ancestry.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Home.ancestry.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Home.ancestry.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Home Ancestry. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: